I purchased a single bottle of the 2005 Domaine du Vieux Chene Cuvee des Capucines Cotes du Rhone ($13) a few months back and just got around to opening it. WOW !! Bright and crisp, bursting with red berry fruit. Feels clean in the mouth and ends with gentle spices on the finish. 100% Grenache Rose' from an organic grower in southern France. This is a lovely and exciting Rose'.

ClarkDGigHbr wrote:I purchased a single bottle of the 2005 Domaine du Vieux Chene Cuvee des Capucines Cotes du Rhone ($13) a few months back and just got around to opening it. WOW !! Bright and crisp, bursting with red berry fruit. Feels clean in the mouth and ends with gentle spices on the finish. 100% Grenache Rose' from an organic grower in southern France. This is a lovely and exciting Rose'.

-- Clark

I have a recollection of an earlier vintage named almost, or exactly, the same, which was a rouge, not a rose. And I remember that I liked it enough to go back for more and that most of the 6 bottles I bought had loose fitting corks, but the wine was fine. Does Vieux Chene make both a rose and a rouge, and are they both called Capucines?

OW Holmes wrote: ... and that most of the 6 bottles I bought had loose fitting corks, but the wine was fine.

This bottle of Rose' came with a very tight-fitting synthetic stopper. It resembles a hollow rubber cylinder filled with cream-colored goo. I couldn't tell you what kind of stopper they use for their CdR Rouge.